11:216:101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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If a mistake in sequence is made, each mistake will be the same. Time: can be as little as a few generations. *species: individuals that have the potential to interbreed (sex) & produce live viable (fertile) offspring. Evolution is spoken about at a species level. Gene: discrete hereditary unit composed of specific (dna) sequences. Darwin: the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life . Wallace: on the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type . Galapagos islands 600 miles off the coast of ecuador. Population: all individuals of one species living in an area all at the same time & place. Natural selection: differential (unequal) survival reproduction (offspring) of individuals with certain advantageous (cannot predict ahead of time, what the advantageous trait will be) traits will contribute disportionately to the makeup of ___ in the next generation.
